Nello ferrara biography examples
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I owe to Your Highness, as to a Prince, who by birth retains from his ancestors the ancient, & hereditary protection of the fine arts, the fruit of those musical efforts, to which I gave myself in my first years under the teaching of Signor Luzzasco so rare an Organist & so dear a servant of the Most Serene House of ESTE, which, having been in Italy the most celebrated, & sure stronghold of virtuosi has drawn in its glory the homage of the immortal pens of writers, & particularly of the Ferrarese, who surviving death in dense number, make their Fatherland live eternal, & glorious.
Girolamo Frescobaldi to Alfonso III d’Este, 12 April 1624
And there in the red empty twilight just after Bologna … there she is already in sight, the great, the warm dwelling, there she is, still there, my youth …
Giorgio Bassani
1.1 The casual traveler to Italy cannot fail to visit Rome—crowded, noisy, smog-ridden, but still exasperatingly beautiful after twenty-eight
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Renzo Ravenna
Italian politician (1893–1961)
Renzo Ravenna (Ferrara, August 20, 1893 - Ferrara, October 29, 1961) was an Italianlawyer and politician. He belonged to a prominent Jewish family in Ferrara and was, with Enrico Paolo Salem in Trieste, one of only two Fascist mayors of Jewish origin in Italy before the introduction of the racial laws.[1]
He was an interventionist and volunteer during World War I and a friend of Italo Balbo; this made him first approach and then join the National Fascist Party, until he was appointed podestà. He devoted himself to the administration of the city with particular attention to the economic situation, urban reconstruction and cultural initiatives. After his resignation, due to the institution of the anti-Jewish laws (1938) and with the death of Balbo (1940), he definitively distanced han själv from Fascism: the persecution of his family by the regime, his flight to Switzerland and his subsequent return to Ferrara when the war w
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William Girometti
Italian painter (1924–1998)
William Girometti | |
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William Girometti in 1976 | |
| Born | (1924-01-09)January 9, 1924 Milan |
| Died | October 3, 1998(1998-10-03) (aged 74) Bologna |
| Resting place | Bologna |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Accademia di Brera |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Sculpture |
| Awards | His painting Disamina della verità obiettiva was recommended by UNICEF in 1979 for the International Year of the Child |
William Girometti (Milan, 9 January 1924 – Bologna, 3 October 1998) was an Italian painter of Surrealist influence.
Biography
[edit]William Girometti was born in Milan and spent his childhood and early years there, becoming involved with the Accademia di Brera[1][2] in the period of the Second World War. At the end of the war, he began traveling and living in other Italian cities; in Ferrara, in 1954, he met the woman who would some years later become his wife.
In Ferrara, and in parti